Remember how I said Miss E Beaufoix is partial to cuddly toys?
That she’s a sucker for the unloved, unwanted, worn out and abandoned stuffed animals of all shapes, sizes and conditions?
Well this is what met Mr B and I were faced with when we popped in to say night-night to our sleeping monkey last night…
As you can imagine it gave us quite a scare.
Look at them more closely.
Look at all the eyes.
When we put Miss E to bed she just had her favourite Frieda Bear with her…
Here we are at 11.00pm and there’s an invasion of cuddly companions.
Miss E is squashed at the end – yes she is in the bed believe it or not. Lucky she’s not very tall.
I don’t know how she does it.
It must be like sleeping with an audience.
Maybe she’s practising for Professor Idzikowski’s next bit of sleep research…
As long as she’s not still doing it when she’s 26 I suppose it’s ok…
I never get those Estate Agent Brochures where the seller has felt it appropriate to cover the bed in the main bedroom, you know, the grown up, sophisticated master suite, with cuddly toys.
Maybe you disagree, but I think it’s just wrong.
It’s ok when you’re 6 though.
P.S. Remember how Miss M’s favourite words at the moment are ‘that mine’?
Well her and her 3 year old cousin ME have just ended up arguing over the ownership of a small poo in the Pooh Bear Potty.
M: “Dat my poo.”
ME: “No, that my poo.”
M: “No, dat my poo.”
Mummy/Auntie Jo: “Arghhhhhhhhh”
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July 9th, 2007 at 6:12 am
Are you sure Miss E is in that bed?
I think the toys may actually be camouflaging the fact that she has gone out for the evening with her mates. That’s quite clever for a 6 year old.
They do look at bit spooky.
Do you remember Chucky?
July 9th, 2007 at 7:32 am
There’s a hysterical Baby Blues cartoon strip where the family is in the middle of a pumpkin field with thousands of pumpkins and both the kids run to the SAME pumpkin and yell “MINE!!!”
To be fair, it’s probably not as funny once your kids are doing the same thing. Mine never stop. They would fight over moldy dog poo.
Speaking of poo…any luck yet?
July 9th, 2007 at 8:41 am
Just tell them it’s Pooh’s poo.
I only have the one child, but she’ll try to argue ownership of my things with me. “That’s my bra!”
“Oh, yeah? What’re you going to put in it?”
“…..I’ll use it to carry apples.”
As for the toys, that would creep me out a bit. But as long as they’re not moving of their own accord you should be okay. *grin*
July 9th, 2007 at 9:30 am
Heh heh.
Ingenious I will check under the covers next time Miss E does this incase she has indeed absconded.
RC that comic strip is so true, and no, we haven’t found the poo yet. I’m hoping that was it, and it was just very, very tiny or something…
Jen, telling them it’s Pooh’s poo is a fantastic idea, hee hee.
And I don’t think any of the toys have moved independently, but Mr B’s mum did buy E a Chucky doll once Ingenious. She hadn’t noticed it’s pointy little teeth and evil smile.
I was a very bad mummy and put it in the bin when we got home. I just couldn’t sleep with it in the house.
I know, sad, but I get spooked by stuff.
July 9th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
OK, all those blank stares are downright creepy. That’s the making’s of a horror novel, right there!
Of course I was never one for dolls or stuffed animals, not even as a kid. Although I did go through a Barbie stage—but that was more for the accessories that CAME with Barbie, and not the doll itself. I liked to imagine myself in her townhouse, and driving her doon-buggy, and swimming in her pool, etc. And of course wearing those shiny plastic mule high-heeled shoes.
July 9th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
She may be setting you up so in her teen years she can easily sneak out a window without you noticing that SHE isn’t in her bed with all those creepy eyed fluffies….
Well, that is probably what my child will do when she is a teen.
July 9th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Susan I loved the Barbie mules too.
Miss E has a whole world of Barbie’s under her bed, and although I try to avoid having to play with them, I do like to dress them up and make them look gorgeous.
I swear their legs are longer, their waists thinner and their boobs are larger though.
Camikaos, I’m sure you’re probably right.
I shall have to pay one of them to spy on her.
LOL